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The Birds of CUimhia. 
outside masticatory or other assistance, and this article of diet it always 
preferred to anything else, though if they were not forthcoming it would 
take boiled rice, soaked biscuit or "clierrie." the native porridge made from 
pounded millet. The Mandingo name for this bird is MARllINA, pro- 
nounced exactly like the English word " mariner." 
L. mixHfHx. BROWN HORNBTLL. 
liiiiKic West Africa, Senegarnbia to Nigeria ; North-east Africa. 
(//./..) 
A brown and whitish bird i-ather larger than the last, which is l)y far 
the commonest of our Hornbills ; they are plentiful enough any where at 
all seasons, but at the beginning of the rains their numbers are enormously 
increased both up-river and round Bathurst. where they are commonly 
known as " Rainbirds" and wliere they simply swarm at this season. Their 
note, a tri-syllabic mewing cry generally uttered as the.y fly. is very monot- 
onous, and when one hears it constantly rei)eated from morning to night by 
a daily increasing number of biids (as is the case at this season), it becomes 
(juite maddening and most irrit.iting, particidarly to nerves in that state of 
general over-sensitiveness and irrital)ility, which the rainy season is so liable 
to produce. From this cry they get their native names, KTLAHKONG in 
IMandingo and KILTNKKO in Jolofp, either of which when pronounced 
with the true native inflexion gives a most accurate rendering of the call. 
In food, habits and flight they resemble their red-billed relative. 
Their general colours are browns, dark and light, mottled with drab 
and white. The bill is dark brown with a pale yellowish streak at the base 
of the uppei mandible and four or five oblique transverse lines of the same 
colour on the lower. Legs black, iris red-brown ; Length, '20 inches. 
L. Ki'iii/JanciafiiK. 
Raiii/e. West Africa, Senegarnbia to Nigeria. { ff.L.) 
This species I have never to my knowledge seen. It is a larger bird 
(■J4 inches) than mimitna and mainly rusty Ijlack and white in colour and has 
a pale yellow beak getting black towards the tip. 
(To he continued.) 
A Holiday in the West Indies. 
By a. Sutcltfpe. 
(Continued from pajge 157). 
The woods resounded with the liammering of the Wood- 
pecker. I saw several Radiolated Woodpeckers {Centiirus radi- 
olrtiis) which I could easily identify hy the bright red cap. I sur- 
prised one which flew only a short distance, screaming all the time, 
and alighted on the trunk of another tree not more than fifty 
yards away, so I got a good chance of seeing him, and the plumage 
was marked in very much the same way as that of our Lesser Spotted 
